Pippa's Pendant Origin Story
I started wearing stones at quite a young age. When I got a pendant drill, I was able to drill holes in the stones, which took a long time but was very exciting for me. Before that, I was carrying the stones around in my pocket and in my bag, and I was losing them constantly, which was terribly tragic. Being able to make holes with my drill was a fantastic liberation because it meant I could wear my stones, and, being a child at the time, I didn’t have chains, so they were all hung on a string. It became a personal quest to carry stones next to my body without losing them.
I think the idea of a pendant, of an amulet, a piece wherein a stone has drawn you for whatever reason – whether it’s the feel, the weight, the colour, the light play – it might just be an impulse you feel, is very special. This way of putting them on a cord makes them less of a formal piece of jewellery and more about your personal relationship to the stone, where you feel you can face the world more bravely, knowing the stone is on your body.
I string them together by intuition of which shapes and stones fit together, and I often add a gold charm – whether that’s a leaf for the tree of life, or a seed, a pod, a bell, or a bee; anything that you feel relates to you. Being able to string together all of these elements that speak to you is a wonderful way to celebrate yourself.
